On 31-03-10 2:14 PM, Mike Powell -> All wrote:
 MP> A friend of mine has a laptop that runs Vista.

 MP> Recently, they have become unable to get web pages to load on their
 MP> machine. They get a "connectivity error." I had them test
a few other
 MP> things. They are not able to get pages via IE or Firefox, and are not able
 MP> to telnet anywhere.

 MP> However, they can PING other "foreign" systems fine, and
they are able to
 MP> get updates via Windows update and (I think) Jave update.

 MP> They've tried the previous restore point, and it didn't help.

 MP> Any ideas??

They could try typing the IP address of a prominent website to see if it's
a mis-configured DNS setting... for instance, 74.125.127.105 for
Google.com.

If that works, then their DNS needs to be re-configured... try setting it
to the addresses: 208.67.220.220 & 208.67.222.222 (OpenDNS).

If it's not a DNS issue, I would wonder about malware... though these days,
any malware that messed up a system that way would be loading popups
requesting payment to remove the problem. (It's a wonderful world out
there!)

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